Lake Erie In The 60's

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Don’t be a victim be the person who helps lake Erie become it’s finest . Through the bad times of Lake Eries will it ever get better It has been forty years and nothing has changed in lake Erie . It all started in the 60s with the greatest algae bloom anyone has ever seen. The algae problem all began in the 60’s now this type of thing was not an overnight kind of problem, it took a lot of time to actually become a problem. In the 60’s lake Erie was called “burning river “ or “dead lake” which was not the best thing to be called . At one point lake Erie

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